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re: 401k vs Roth 401k

Posted by JL on 12/13/25 at 8:11 am to
Do the Roth. Your company match is likely non-Roth so you will have a good balance of both.

re: Shell closing in on LLOG??

Posted by JL on 12/11/25 at 1:09 pm to
Also a bunch of ex-shell people working at Beacon, they probably want their talent back.

re: Shell closing in on LLOG??

Posted by JL on 12/11/25 at 12:49 pm to
Big 20k field in shenendoah just being brought online. A couple of other projects potentially in the pipeline. Shell hasn't had a big discovery in the gulf for a while and less risky to buy small deepwater companies with production than drill exploration wells.

re: Shell closing in on LLOG??

Posted by JL on 12/11/25 at 8:03 am to
Done deal. Beacon is next. That would leave Talos as pretty much the last opportunity for any international company not already in the gulf to enter the gulf.
15 yrs old washing dishes at neighborhood restaurant in east BR getting paid $5/hr, listening to 100.7 the tiger, getting handed vodka/sprite by the 21 yr old bartender, banging the hostess....
Went to the aquarium and zoo in New Orleans last year and was surpised at the poor condition and especially how they cut the size of the aquarium in half to build the insectarium. The aquarium at Moody in Galveston is twice as big as the one in New Orleans with better exhibits. That's just sad. The zoo probably lost lots of funding with oil companies moving out of New Orleans. All the big exhibits at the Houston Zoo have large private donors and oil companies funding them.

re: NOLA restaurants near Hotel Tonnelle

Posted by JL on 11/22/25 at 8:39 am to
Brigtsens looks amazing. Thanks for the rec. gonna try to get a reservation there. Kids are 2 and 4 so we are limited on places we can take them.

NOLA restaurants near Hotel Tonnelle

Posted by JL on 11/22/25 at 7:14 am
Headed to NOLA for a few nights to show the kids around. Looking for a few restaurants that are walking distance or quick trolley ride from the hotel, both kid friendly and one place for date night with my wife. We tried to get a reservation at Commanders, but couldn't get anything before 9 pm.

Please help with my lawn and beds

Posted by JL on 11/16/25 at 8:21 am
I live in Houston and the front of our house faces west. You can see in the pictures below that all the bushes on the north side of our walkway died while south side survived over the past few freezes and whatever other conditions they were subjected to including getting way more water than the south side of our house because our neighbor to the north has all kinds of stuff in their yard they are constantly watering.

The yard:

I aerated very well and put down weed and feed in the spring. The St. Aug just never spread. Reading online it mentions putting down some sand to give the runners a chance to spread. Our dirt is pretty much rock hard at this point. What should I do now before winter and what should I do again in spring to give it the best chance to regrow? Or is this a dig up and resod the lawn situation?



Prepping the beds:
The boxwoods and gold splash windcreepers on the north side were already dead and pulled out. I've stirred up the dirt, there is clay about 4" below the soil. I was thinking putting some large rocks along the wall to protect the lattice then build up the beds 4-6" with compost?? The boxwoods on the south side survived and we will likely replant boxwoods in the same place on the north side. Any recommendation on what to plant behind the boxwoods? The gold splash windcreepers survived on the south side and I just dug them up, but we want to put something different in, maybe something perennial that flowers.

I know we are coming up on winter. What would be recommendation as to what to do now or what we should wait for spring to do? Wife is in a rush, but I don't want to plant stuff and it not survive winter.





Detox and treatment, straight to sober living, hopefully she can find a sponsor she can relate to and stick with AA. Recommend you and your wife get the AA big book and read it. Also find an Al Anon group and attend.

re: Pen and Paper Strength App

Posted by JL on 11/14/25 at 9:26 am to
Big Back Billy and Oak Tree. I could just keep rotating between those two and be happy.

re: Men’s pants rec’s

Posted by JL on 11/6/25 at 8:12 pm to
I like my Peter Millar pants. I tried the old navy knock off version but they come out of the dryer wrinkled where the Peter Millar ones come out looking pretty wrinkle free.

re: Louisiana leads yet another statistic

Posted by JL on 11/1/25 at 12:07 pm to
I’m surprised by West Virginia. I thought a lot of Appalachia would be on food stamps.

re: No Rate Cut Thread From SVDTiger?

Posted by JL on 10/30/25 at 12:28 pm to
So.... lock in my refinance rate today?

re: What are your go-to buys at Costco?

Posted by JL on 10/18/25 at 6:26 pm to
$6 for 4 pounds of delicious pumpkin pie.

re: Beginner over/under shotgun

Posted by JL on 10/17/25 at 3:33 pm to
Ha I went there. Cheapest thing they had was $3600.

Beginner over/under shotgun

Posted by JL on 10/17/25 at 1:52 pm
I shoot clays maybe twice a year in charity tournaments and am tired of showing up with my semiauto. I was looking at the browning citori, but didn't want to drop that much money unless I was shooting more? Is there another over/under at a lower price point that is good quality? or is it worth it to just spend the money and get something nicer?
Of course, it's just a philosophy. There is a book called "Die with Zero" some people are following that for retirement.
That's not the point. You fund your kids college accounts, house down payment, retirement while you are alive. For your grandkids you fund sending them to private school, college, down payments for houses, retirement while you are alive so that you can watch them enjoy life more and not just let them catch millions of dollars when you die.

Basically you pay for your kids and grandkids to be upper class while you are alive vs. after you die.
Some people have the philosophy of spend it all on your kids/grandkids while you're alive and die with zero.

Or don't leave your kids an amount of money that will turn them into useless assholes.
Prolly gets paid every time he breaks the record so no sense in doing his max when he can get paid in 5 kg incriments.